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Tuesday Oct 15, 2013

The Java Development Kit 7 Update 45 (JDK 7u45) release with JavaFX 2.2.45 is available and can be downloaded from the Java SE Downloads page. For information about this release, see the JDK 7u45 Release Notes.

The Java Control Panel now has an option for restoring the security prompts that were hidden when the option to not show the prompt again was selected. See the documentation for the Security tab for more information on the Restore Security Prompts option.

New JAR file manifest attributes are available to provide additional security for your applets and Java Web Start applications. See JAR File Manifest Attributes for Security for information on the Application-Name, Application-Library-Allowable-Codebase, and Caller-Allowable-Codebase attributes. The launchable examples in the Java Tutorial have been updated to use these new attributes, where applicable.

Note: The Permissions attribute that was added for 7u25 is now required when the Security Level slider in the Java Control Panel is set to Very High.

The Collections trail in the Java Tutorial has been updated to describe the preferred method of traversing collections with JDK 8, which is obtaining a stream and invoking its aggregate operations. Aggregate operations are often used with lambda expressions to make programming more expressive using fewer lines of code. The Collection, Set, List, and Map interface pages now contain examples that demonstrate this new language feature.